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Message: <blockquote data-quote="punaruwan" data-source="post: 11077668" data-attributes="member: 174822">World's most complex telescope takes first pictures of deepest space in quest for more knowledge of outer universeThis is the remarkable first picture taken by the new $1.3 billion radio telescope sitting high in the Chilean Andes. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, shortened to the 'ALMA radio telescope', took  a snap of the Antennae Galaxies from South America.The  telescope is now officially open and ready to explore the universe  after years of planning and constructing the massive observatory it sits  in alongside some of the world’s most complex ground-based telescopes. <img src="http://i.imgur.com/q8ec6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> The ALMA radio telescope has taken its first photograph of the Antennae Galaxies from the observatory in Chile (pictured) North  American ALMA project manager at the National Radio Astronomy  Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, Mark McKinnon, told Space.com:  We went to one of the most extreme locations on Earth to build the  world’s largest array of millimetre/submillimeter telescopes, having a  level of technical sophistication that was merely a dream only a decade  ago.’‘This truly is a great occasion.’  The amazing shot of the Antennae Galaxies (otherwise known as NGC  4038 and 4039) shows the pair of interacting galaxies in the  constellation Corvus. The galaxies are around 70 million light-years away and were captured by ALMA using two different wavelength  ranges.<img src="http://i.imgur.com/5X1TJ.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Desert location: ALMA radio telescope sits in the Chajnantor plateau, in Chile's Atacama desert, some 1500 km north of Santiago<img src="http://i.imgur.com/KCLth.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> ALMA's antennas: Each of its 66 antennas will be used to detect extremely cold objects, such as gas clouds formed by  stars and planets Researchers  released the early image, shot during testing phases, to show off  ALMA's capabilities but say images in the future will be better quality  and sharper.The  40ft radio telescope sits on the Chajnator plateau in the Atacama  desert, some 1500 km north of Santiago, at an elevation of 16,500 ft.Each  of ALMA’s 66 antennas will be used to detect extremely cold objects,  such as gas clouds formed by stars and planets, researchers said.<img src="http://i.imgur.com/BJCXl.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Joint project: ALMA is an international partnership project of Europe,  North America and East Asia, with the cooperation of Chile This  is possible because its antennas each pick up light at a range around  1,000 times longer than visible-light wavelengths – known as  millimetre/submillimeter range.ALMA’s  deputy project scientist during construction, Alison Peck, told the  science site: ‘With millimetre and submillimeter waves, we can watch  planet formation, investigate astrochemistry and detect the light that  is finally reaching us from the universe’s earliest galaxies.’ ALMA  is an international partnership project of Europe, North America and  East Asia, with the cooperation of Chile, and is presently the largest  astronomical project in the world.</blockquote>

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